The Great Pyramid of Egypt is one of the world's oldest and most perplexing enigmas, but If writers Robert Bauval and Adrian
Gilbert are to be believed, it may be about to yield many of its secrets.
They claim that the 4,500-year-old pyramid, far from being simply a royal tomb, was an instrument of worship in the stellar cult of the fourth
Egyptian dynasty, and that the precision with which it was constructed was an attempt to re-create heaven on earth.
Presenter Emma Freud meets
Bauval and Gilbert, and talks to experts who have devoted years to the study of the pyramids. Executive producer John Blake
Producer Chris Mann
Unravelling the riddle of the Pharaohs
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